MEDFORD Iftlu f RTTHTKEg MEDFOnD,- OKEfiONT, WEDNESDAY. APR?L 22, 1925 PAGE FIVE vEXPERTS FAVOR HOLLY STEET SITE . P. AND E. SUE A CLOSE (Continued from page one.) u C j? JS K g f r.... s s . a " s. TABLE 1. ' . 5" as : : : S 2 s- : : "' . : : : ; Present Standard capacity. , Maximum capacity. Amount overcrowded Average- Increase enrollment.. Increase laat .year...' , No., of years - Until standard ca ". pacity ' la reached . . . Ko. years until maximum ca pacity la reached 257 43 1" 333" 300 360 300 . 410 450 410 None 7i 30 15 20 25 1 0 0 620 440 6.10 80 20 1571 1400 1800 171 80 149 505 325 Q20 .180 28 28 2070 1725 2320 361 103 . 177 4 The '.Jackson, schdol will reach be offset In throe vn ,.. (h in. maximum capacity In much less time creased population of your elcmcn Ihan the six. years Indicated as tho tarv m-hnni ,h. ,.,.,,v0 oversow, irom me Lincoln ana probably during 1928, an 8-room wasmngton scnoois will be trans- unit of a new elomentnry school f erred . to, the 'Jacknon school. No building, to bocomo eventually a 10- rnanner of shifting will prevent overy room building, ' should bo " erected elementary school being crowded to somewhere near the center of popu- ' more than maximum capacity by the lntlon of the fllstrlct now served by opening 01 ocnuoi in n. tne Washington school (estimated ture buildings smaller rooms and full knowledge of the district's fl- per capita. Should the assessed vnl more of them should be your policy, nnnciaj condition and what the pro- tuition -of the Mod ford school district W your present elementary school gram will mean In terms of com- Tlicrcase only as .rapidly as tho pop buildings many of the rooms are too mltments to tho district. O I ufctlon' tho avcraao Increaso In evul large, 27x33 feet, and some as largo Choice of ft Site for a New uution based on our conservative as 27x36 feet. The stnndard elo- High School. I estimates for growth In population montary school room is approxi-' Your commlttoo was shown three would approximate IKJS.OOO. In tho mtiv 9Svan Npntinir jn tn a& mintls cite,, u-hinh were beinc considered as estimates below on annual nverago UnH thi aitifwinvri hi.rh . Hl.hAni rnnm ,naiMn incntlnns f.m a new hich Increase in assessed valuation of 21x28 feet or 23x25 feet, Beating 30 school. They were what Is called $200,000 Is used which will In turn to' 36 pupils. The present elumen- the p. & K. property on tho east Increase tho ability to bond. $10,000 tiny school rooms are approximately side of Bear Creek; the north Holly'a year, r 25 per cent too largo in square feet street property on which the athletic present maximum of bonded of floor space. field is now located, ana tno soum indobtedncss otter June Indebtedness. 1H2S. ...... HO, 550 Bond Issue of 19 2 8 (10- year bonds) Redlining margin of pos sible Indebtedness Keduction of bonded Indebt edness by 1S30 On present bonds (re mainder) On 1925 high school bonds On 1928 ele. school bonds Estimated increase in abil ity to bond through in creased ass. evaluation 65,000 84.050 " 8.000 20.700 13,000 COLOR IT NEW WITH "DIAMOND DYES" . .$381,000 .Margin of possible bonded 20.000 65.000 80,750 4 We suggest that In the future Holly street property in the soutn' isSd adequate provision for industrial, end of the city. We carefully ex- p.pscnt. indebtedness as of Indebtedness nfler 1930.. 1 43,750 household arts, and laboratory units: amined each of these suggested sites iline m 1925 63,000. Bond issuo of 1930 (10-yr. for auditorium, gymnasium, library and considered them from every . jlonu jgo uf 1925, 20-year bonds) and office room should bo Insisted point of. view and evaluated them 'on . bon(js. 185,000 Remaining margin of pos- upon. all the technical points to be con- jIlirin; 0'f""p'ossible indobt- sible bonded Indebtedness 5. Your present buildings arc not sldered In choosing a site . for a ,,. ,11s 43.000 Reduction of bonded indebt- fire proof. This is not in accord- school building, we considered sucn R.ulK.tion f Indebtedness edness by 1935 ance with modern building practice points as: . nccessiDiuiy, 1. e.t near- b 1J128 or the high regard of Medford peo- ness to center of city and school Cn prwl',,"nt bonds 45,000 pie for the safety of their children, population, tho number and naturo( 0n 196 hl n 8Ci,ool bonds 31,060 Your modern ' buildings should be of avenues of approach: drainago -,, ,,.. in-rAn,i nhilitv semi-flre-proof, fire-proofing halls, and public utility accommodations: I "to bona through increased stairways and heating plant. I cost of site; beauty and possiblll- ,,Bsessed evaluation of dls- 6. Your new buildings should be ties of beautifying; site as related to I trict constructed with belter facilities for the school orgalliotlon. size of slto; iInr(.ln of possible bonded iigut umi veuuiuuun inan yuur um me miuiiu iiiiu uuniuiiiij vi . ones.. This we need "not urge as no site; tho naturo- of the district in rospectablo architect will submit you each matter of froedom from noise, plans In this day calling for windows nearness to business and industrial distributed In two walls with wldo' centers: the nature of tho soli and mullions between, us Is found In Its adaptability to school ' ground your older buildings or without somo purposes: etc. plan for ventilation. I Medford Is fortunato In having so 7. We suggest that where flnan-lmany available sites for its new high ces permit that battleship linoleum school. Many cities would consider or some other deadener bo laid on themselves fortunate to have cither 30,500 kk,.i - ,.K I . .. lcBU,B1iu ,r some otner deadener Do laid on tnemseives roriunnte 10 nave emier Third, .the future growth of popu- cost 165.000). A site of not less than fc floors of your halls, library room one of Medford's three possible sites. v1 . .. . I eight acres should be obtained for and ntalrwnva V'nlhln. .rill on. Vrnm n technical noint of view cither latlort. : r- I eight acres should be obtained for wo navo, cased our estimates 01 this school at onco and tho bond future growth in school population' Issuo submitted early In the winter In Medford on two sources of data of 1927-28 so that the building may (1.: the Increase in attendance in the be occupied In the fall. By this bast five years, (2) tho figures of the time the high school will have survey conducted by the Bell Tele-, reached Its capacity. The 7th grade phone-company experts. may be then housod In the elemen-! 1 The. Increase In school attendance tnry schools and tho old high school fpi" - each ' of . tho past four years building used for the 8th and 9th Over' the previous years has been as grades. ' ttfr"'-" ?''' ' J I '' I" 1930, additions to tho ""'"'"'" " i I Kooaeve" and Jackson schools lit '. ''"'' fi,should ue made according to tho " '' "' ' ' ' ' noods and financial ability, probably i"; ' " ' : 177 j four-room additions to each. The win "''qCii: '08 Jackson district boundaries should ?L fL'iI C0.mpan "' then be changed so as to draw less K ff nlLJZ W, Li"! P',ul1a- f-om the Washington and more from -1 ?H L PP? I V 00iVeovk. the L,ncoln dl8tr,ct. Estimated cost Of 800 people ft . year. The ratio $06,000 of school attondftneo to population 5when in. tv..hinn. v.i In Oregon.isanahasbeen in Medford ' is . old ,' LSLl'S.?? ppi'olmately l to 4. This would 1 unit of the new elementary school hdlcate on average yearly Increase should be built. Estimated cost in and stairways. Nothing will con-, From a technical point of view either tribute more to an atmosphere of of the three sites examined wouiu quiet and study. I be satisfactory for the location of 8. No new building should be a high school, .but there are cer constructcd without adequate toilet tain advantages to the various sites facilities. Minimum standards not which wo will point out. We bo less than one seat and one urinal lieve the South Holly streot prop- for every 35 boys and one seat for erty should not be considered for every 20 girls bused on ' maximum these reasons: capacity of building. First . 9 No now building should bo' '. (a) Too for from center of pop- erected Willi doors swinging Inward ulation now. and population Is going or without panic bolts on all major away from It. In attendance of 200 school children, llinost twice our, estimates. It Would sceni that - our estimates are, theiti almost too conservative. If our estimates of future growth addition to sale of old Washington property, $45,000. , ; . (6) In 1985, or a ' year . or. so sooner If finances permit, a now Junior high school to .be built as tho 1 J , j D jtiiiiu, lilfjfl BC1IUUI .11 il i- correct in ten years, second unit of tho Junior-senior high Ife ..olstrlot rtiUst , provldo for schooli school plant should be provided for, uw: . , ... 1 estimated capacity 800, Vfiuuon j-o... 1HUV UUU. orsnan 7-8-.. . tifide ,10-11-12 - Thli will neressitntM n nu. hlph school of at least 000 capacity : In Mil Immediate future, a Junior high school of ' 800 capacity by 1935, and additional elementary school facili ties tot 600 new pupils, the equiva lent of two such buildings as the Jackson oV Roosevelt schools and for 600 more when tho Washington school is solll or abandoned.. .Should the Bell . Telephone figures' bo cor rect, In addition, to the above, pro vision must bo '.made for 1000 more cost 225,- UVU. ' . . . 690 f (") Whiio we can not help but 625. admire the progressive spirit of those interested in tho establishment of a Junior college in Medford, it is our belief that 1. The stafo of Oregon will not probably within tho next' genera tion establish state supported Junior cuiieges, . . 2. Should It do so It will fol low the example of California and establish them whore normal schools already exist. J. Tno first duty of Medford is 10. its elementary and aernnHni-v the uu u lie w. or: irn nnnu nnni mtnmb tnt Npnrtni mmiia .u- . .... L.fii 1 t . : i'i'a oiiu tuut wun me equivalent of . -three such schools as present need for school and water the Jackson fcehool.v .:. .bonds, It 'will .be extremely difficult (b) Inaccessible . from standpoint of avenues of approach. (c) In a switching and ware houso district. exits. The Financial Condition of the Medford School District. Tho financial condition of a. school district Is determined bv tho fe-l (d) Poorer surface drainage and latlon of its resourdes to its expend!-' a' more difficult sewer and water turcs, or Its ability to support its problem. program. This : Involves tho futurol 1 (e) . Nature of soil, bad for . play- program, as well as the present ono.1 ground,' athletics, rocky, bad for No school district knows Its actual grass plots, sticky. financial condition - unless It known In considering the other two sites its future commitments. Herein has the. North Holly street property has been our failure in financing cduca- the following advantages over the ion m tne pnst. Only the present r. ""d E. site nns oeen considered. I second What Is the flnancjal condition of (a) North Holly street property tho- Medford school district? The Is nearer center of population, school following facts will give a. fair con- and otherwlso, and it . appears that ccption of Its condition: - tho centetr of population vll move 1. il nas an assessed valuation .Olt luwara, ramer .man- away irom 11. $5,483,366. ; (b) It is higher ground prob 2. Its present tax., rato is . 20. D ably better drainage and sewer; fa mills for school purposes.- . I duties. The present sewers on Jack ' 3. The total tax rate on all prop-! son and Main streets near tho P. and eriy in tne city for all purposes is E. property aro already taxed to ca 60.6 mills. ' I pacity. 4. The school district hns 108 000 ' (c). It has more nhd better ave bonded debts, which is being retired nues of approach. The approaches On 192S high school bonds 46.250 On 1928 ele. school bonds 32,500 On 1930 ele. school bonds Estimated incrensed nbility to bond through increased assessed evaluation.. Margin of possible bonded indobtedncss 1HS5 242. 000 00 60,000 Dcout if ul home dye ing and tinting is guarsnteed with Dia mond Dyes. Just dip in rtild water to tint soft delicate shades, or boil to dye rich, Iicriiinncnt colors, inch 15-cent packsgo contnins directions so simple any woman ran dye or tint lingerie, aitkfl, riblicm, skirts, waist, dresses, coats. stockings, sweaters, draperies, coverings, hnnglngs. everything new. Buy "Diamond Dyes" no oUier kind and tell your druggist whether tbe mate rial you wibh to color is wool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton, or mixed goods. -. ; ' . I Have Decided Not to Move and will continue business at 711 East Main and Genesee Sts. I can sell all kinds of building material cheaper at my present location Wallace Phone 108 Woods at the rate of $16,000 oer year ' 5. The maximum legal limit of Is suing bonds is $275,000 on the basis to the P. and B. site are few and. likely to be congested. (d) It is freer '.from main In lineal ...Li) ui vur rwuuimeu-. . Oatloni, wA wish- to urgt) npou .' Um, people) of Modrord tho im portance and nerd of making Immediate-: provisions for lious- ' lUlf your schools. It is not a ..question-of ciioloo between aver age faculties and better, It . is . a. question between adequate fa , dlillcs - and failure 'to provide (uffkicnt housing of any qual ity. Wo do not know of a com munity In Oregon of tho same KM and with, the some char acter of - cltlnens of Medrord . where a high Hchool Is so poorly boused. - Tio . situation In tho Elementary "schools will bo no better In the course of two or three rears. 7 .1. a,ov wibh 10 urge upon your less salary than two ordinary peftplo the necessity of economy In principals. Much of the routine your buildings. . What Is needed Is . work ordinarily carried on by prin Uot pretentious, elegant buildings, 1 clpals could be performed by toach bdt. substantial buildings of largo ' ers as ' assistant principals under Capacity, which will provide for your! the direction of the principal whoso needs, so that you will not be faced ! time Is not -bo expensive to the dls wlth the need of providing more! trict. . 1 , . buildings before j'our bonded In- (c) It will ' eliminate the waste debtedness Is reduced to a point! of time of supervisors and teachers k where you can erect them. Your! of special subjects, e. g., music, art, ... . lo uwuuij cU1uw cuuwuuu, munuai training. nuusenoiq arts, etc. to convince Medford tnx payers that nigner education Is a local and not 'a state burden. -. . : Miscellaneous Suggestions. 1 We wish to rocominend a six year high school plant for the fol lowing reasons: 1 . - (a) The two high schools may mnae common use of the gymna sium, auditorium, shoos, and kit. chens, and library books thereby of the present assessed valuation. ! of traffic, such as tho Pacific and Having $68,000 present bonded debt 1 Klamath highways.; . reduces that , limit to $207,000. e) It is cheaper J than tho P. and The average yearly Increase In' E. property. ' . , assessed vuluution for the flve"VifilrS I' (t)., ..The ' larger, 'majority of chll has been $129,308, which'' at a - 20 dron will not have to go through, tho mill rate returns $2,687.36. ' ' 'j I business section of the city In order 7. Tho average yearly increase In ' to reach It as would be tho case w ith me scnooi budget for the last five tho P. and-E. property. The V. and E. site has the follow ing advantages over the north Holly (a) It Is a larger, ond more ade quate site and will house both tno as much as 'to provide a place ade quota for a high grade of teaching. Jt Is-doubtful whether Medford ikllldlng . costs should exceed $.126 tr senior high school pupil, $275 per Junior high .school pupil, or $225 per elementary school pupil. Satis factory buildings- aro being built in Oregon for less. .. Based 'on; our conservative esti mates of future growth the district will .have to provide school housing at the rate: of a building- like the Jackson or Roosevelt building every three and one-half years to keep tip; to key nothing of relieving the present congested condition. If the SfoK-th of last year continues or if 1 Ittk ' estimates of the Bell Telephono1 Ufvey are correct, there will have Id'JbH' built one such building every two ears to. house the now pupils lldhei, . . .-. lfctt$t fcdmrhlttee wishes to'recom ,ntna lhe-i following. , housing and btflldlfiit program: (1) In 1826-26 a new high school bnlldlng ol approximately 600 ca ' PaJ'bi lo be Used for the time being " for grades 9 to 18. and later as a 'settlor, high school (grades 10 to 13) said building to be the first unit of' a combined Junior and senior nign -school plant. (4) When the high school evac uates the qld high school building. Jt should be. used as a Junior high school building housing grades " and 8 on a departmental- plan. There will then be approximately 350 years fs $3,180.81, leaving a, differ ence, between the return on the In creased assessed valuation of approx imately $600. ' 8- The present cost per pupil in Junior and senior high schools for the Medford schools is $69.00. I veara to come. ' 9- Tho average yearly increase In (b) The small area Included In school enrollment is 108 DUDils. the north Holly site w;cst of Gropo 10- This will increase the yearly street constitutes a reasonable objec- UUOgei aiinrOXimatelV : 1764- . fnr flnn In Ihnt nrnnprtV. eliminating needless duplication of , maintenance. I (c) . It Is nearer the old high Plant and equipment used only al "- The present tax levy Is $107,- school. Should It prove nocesBnry portion of tho time by either Junior i 259.25. to use both buildings In connection ur Bcumr nign senoai alone and per- " " me district should Bond this fact would favor the P. and a mltting the construction of one large Itself to its statutory limit by Issu- property.' We aro not Inclined- to auditorium and one largo gymna- ln 20 year serial bonds, Its budget believe that the ubo of both bulld 8'um. , J would be Increased by $10,360.00 for ings In connection will be necessary (b) One very able and highly. an nnnual payment of principal and for anv length of tlnie. trained principal may be employed : 10, 360. 00 for on annual payment (d) It Is more adaptablo to or interest. This Interest charge will school building program because of nuclease jnif.uu per year as the the Irregular shape of tno norm bonds are rotlred. These Increases -uit nrnmrtv. plus the one duo to Increase In en- e) It is less likely to suffer from rollment will bring the budget un tho nniao of milwuv trains though to $136,411.45. , I-.. ,,re not Inclined to believe that 13. This total will require a tax the. nniaa from the trains will be rate of 24.6 mills on the present ae- a significant inconvenience as in all sessed valuation, or it will require an probability no building will be con assessed valuation of $6,760.00, or an structed closer than Grape street. ' Increase of $1,276,635. This is too! In Consideration of the advantages largo an Increase to be made. Tho of each site wo are convinced that necessary increase In the tnx rate the choice In Medford is dependent is the more practical plan.' This In- upon factors other than technical crease In the tax rato can be made points of desirability of location, in Medford wlthout-any undue hard-' However, .your - commlttoo chooses ship or burden upon taxablo prop- the North Holly streot property for ofty. ! I tho slto for the location of your now We believe that In its present fl- high school, since we consldor that nancial condition as outlined above, I it .-has more and bettor points in Its Medford can adequately - finance the favor.- We are convinced, however, program which we have .outlined In that no bond issue will carry In the recommendations. A bond issuo Medford If it is connected with ony of $196,000 will finance - the new 0f tne three sites mentioned, be proposed high school of., approxi-1 cause of the political situation. The mafely 600 capacity. This will be sentiment Is so evenly divided . be- the first unit of a 900 capacity tween the three sites and there are building. This new high' school will always enough who are opposed to a care for the Increase In. high school bond Issue under any conditions to enrollment for four years, and will defeat it. no matter to which site it release the present : high -school, may be attached. In the interest of building to be used for the 7th and the schools of Medford and with a 8th grades of tho entire system. This,' strong desire - to seo the next- bond In turn, will relieve he congestion Issue for a new high school carry In the, elementary schools for two at tho polls, we propose the follow-' years. In two years, .'by retiring ng recommendation:. That the voters Which would otherwise, result from traveling from building to building. (d) Ono heating piant may serve tho entire plant. One large plant wlll.be of less expense to the dis trict both for construction and opo ration. (e) The break between the 8th and 9th, or the 9th and 10th grades wnicn causes tne elimination of pu plls from school in large, number will disappear. Tho school will bo regarded and organized as a six- year secondary school with no par tlcular gap. . 2- We w1ah to suggest to you that me tendency to establish a number 01 small elementary schools instead of fewer and larger ones is regarded oy scnooi . experts as undesirable irom an educational viewpoint and expenslvo frdm the viewpoint of fi nance much for the same reasons anvancen above. ' (a ) Because of the Irregularity In enrollment from one grade to another some rooms In small ele mentary schools win have but 20 or 25 pupils or less, thus Increasing the per pupil cost. (b) Figures show that without $15,000 per year, and with a mar-lof Medford be requested to decide gin of $12,000 on the present bond-; both the bond Issue and the choice ing limit, and with the nresent rate I of a site bv ballot, and. that the bond of Increased assessed v a 1 u a 1 1 o nl issue be separated from the Issue as ($130,000 per year) the bonding to the site; that is, let the voters limit will be raised to. $56,000, which cost their ballots for or against the will be sufficient to build the eight-1 proposed bond issue Irrespective of room' elementary school. When this, the site for the building, and at the exception that the smaller the school ' done, the 7th grade can then be i same election let them also cost the greater the pupil cost. (c) They are difficult to super vise. d) They involve a waste of time by teachers and supervisors in walk ing from building to building. (e) competent principals can be retained In the elementary schools' their ballots either for the North and the 9th grade In the old high school. This will relieve the . new high school of approximately 200 of its students which will make It ade quate to house its increasing en rollment for another six or eight Holly street site or the P. and site and abide by the results. '' : Respectfully, HARL It. DOUOLAR, HOMEIt P. RAINEY. Program of Bonded Indebtedness to T.oek ( k.,.btd. ! I I I J T WnLJ I I V doon iU, S,lktM t-mmtl ' ' f y liM 1 A ! ll r-J to So bo. MtiWwnnil "Crf" H-ml m A now? whit fcmtrM liitanw and i ilw town A tnftfcfMl mm to whit. ihfe, SiUawhit wast1 'Jar Woodwork : SILKENWHITE ENAMEL WOODWORK that gleams in ric and satin-lits vesture! in aristocratic ivory or grays or purest white. Woodwork that provides gracious and fitting back grounds (or rugs and furniture, for pictures and bang ings. . Finish or re-finish the woodwork in your home with Silkcnwhite Enamel. 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In these eight years, by re- Financo Proposed Building Program. our estimates of future growth, this! ,r' Dupcato equipment of all tiring the bonds outstanding and in-1 The averoge annual increaso In hullrllng- will be reasonably adequate j fl0,'tH Is required. j creasing the assessed valuation, the assessed, valuation for the district 'or these grades (for about five years. Special classes or provisions district will be In a position to fl-.for the past five years has been np- When the high school is removed to' for hrlght and slow pupils are very nancf, the new proposed Juiilo high proxlnfatelv $130,000. That this has Its new building, alterations and re-' difficult in the small schools. j school. I not been gVeater Is without question Pairs in the oid building will del Aa a standard it Is suggested that! There is one caution to be observ-,due to the reaction after the Infht necesoary and sie hutldii Aihduld an elementary school serve a radius ed CareTul business methods should Hon of values In an earlier period, be re-floored throughout at an estl-of mlle every direction. Schools' he employed In financing Medford's This Inflation has now been .nbsorb mated cost nt iteah I closer than this are uneconomical school program, and strict, but wise ed as a matter of fact assessed etal- t The relief affded your ele- ouna ana operate and are less wuuum oe prscucea.- ine uauons, increase mure rapidly man ntary schools by nliicing the 7th "atisfactory from an educational district's " rate cannot be Increos- population as wealth tends to cor,- and 8th grade In the old high school 'ie Polnt. . ed indefinitely. Every ewp In the gregate lnthe city. The larger the building will temporary and will 'We believe that rn your fu- must be made wisely with a city the larger assessed evaluation W WW WRIT! 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